Today bloggers everywhere will publish posts that discuss poverty in some way. By all posting on the same day we aim to change the conversation for the day, to raise awareness, start a global discussion and add momentum to an important cause. Join us!!

Just want to share you a video what I love a lot:

Learning by samples:

1. Google Code Search
2. Krugle
3. Byte My Code
4. Dzone Snippets
5. Code Fetch
6. Codase
7. Snipplr
8. O’reilly Code Search
9. JSourcery
10. Merobase
11. GitHub
12. Koders

Credit: 10 Code Search Engines

Beside “National Day of China“, there is another reason to celebrate today:

Apple has decided to drop the NDA for released iPhone software.

We put the NDA in place because the iPhone OS includes many Apple inventions and innovations that we would like to protect, so that others don’t steal our work. It has happened before. While we have filed for hundreds of patents on iPhone technology, the NDA added yet another level of protection. We put it in place as one more way to help protect the iPhone from being ripped off by others.

However, the NDA has created too much of a burden on developers, authors and others interested in helping further the iPhone’s success, so we are dropping it for released software. Developers will receive a new agreement without an NDA covering released software within a week or so. Please note that unreleased software and features will remain under NDA until they are released.

Thanks to everyone who provided us constructive feedback on this matter.

Chrome for Windows is ready for downloading now: www.google.com/chrome

Google Chrome is Google’s open source browser project. As rumored before under the name of “Google Browser”, this will be based on the existing rendering engine Webkit. Furthermore, it will include Google’s Gears project.

Google just announced it will launch a new web browser tomorrow, Sep. 2nd, 2008. It’s called Chrome.

So why are we launching Google Chrome? Because we believe we can add value for users and, at the same time, help drive innovation on the web.

A interest part of this launch is Google created a comic book to explain the Chrome. I spent some time put it together as a pdf share it here:

Want to know more:
Chrome on LearnHub
A fresh take on the browser
Google on Google Chrome – comic book

Mozilla just released an experiment version of Ubiquity yesterday.

• Download Ubiquity 0.1
• Find Ubiquity Commands

UPDATE:

Nick Marshall is the lead developer on this plugin now. He has done an awesome job to bring it to a new level! And he moderates the plugin forum actively! Please feel free to post your questions or comments there as well.

UPDATE:

Thanks Michael Klein for his great work on this plugin. We’ve updated to Version 0.3.1 now.

Some changes:

• Encapsulate the plugin in a class. No global vars needed anymore, faster code! (Michael Klein)
• Better support of capabilities-model (WP 2.6)
• Fixed some html-bugs (missing alt-Tags, etc.)

And, please make sure go to your WordPress Settings->Google Translation admin page to reconfig all the preferences after the updating. Thanks!

Google AJAX Translation is my the first WordPress Plugin, it has been downloaded more than 1700 times until today. And because it is so simple, I haven’t done any major update after the first release.

Couple of days ago, I’ve got an email from Michael Klein from alquanto.de. In his email, he attached a updated version of my plugin and show me how it works on his blog: http://groovengine.de

Mr. Michael Klein has finished a big task on my todo list: Switch between flag icon and text for all these languages.

It’s amazing! This is the beauty of Open Source! We need a new update version now!

Say hello to Google AJAX Translation WordPress Plugin 0.2.0!

What’s new?

• Switch between flag icon and text for all these languages. Thanks Mr. Michael Klein!
• Admin configuration page

• Enable/Disable Posts Translation
• Select which languages you want to support
• More Languages Support, it has 23 languages in total:

* Arabic
* Bulgarian New!
* Chinese (Simplified and Traditional)
* Croatian New!
* Czech New!
* Danish New!
* Dutch
* English
* Finnish New!
* French
* German
* Greek
* Hindi New!
* Italian
* Japanese
* Korean
* Norwegian New!
* Polish New!
* Portuguese
* Romanian New!
* Russian
* Spanish
* Swedish New!

How to update?

1. Download the newest version from WordPress
2. Unzip it and you will have everything in the “google-ajax-translation” folder
3. Overwrite the exist “google-ajax-translation” folder on your server, it should be in “wp-content/plugins/” directory
4. Active it from your admin page
5. Do some changes on Google Ajax Translation admin page

Enjoy!

Please feel free to comment here if you have any questions, or you still can check if is was already answered on the old post.

And it is on GitHub too!

What to do when GitHub goes bad?

This was originally posted on github, I save a backup here just in case.

• Git build-in server

git daemon –base-path=/Users/libinpan/clone-from-github –export-all

git clone git://127.0.0.1/rails…

Note: The default port git uses is 9418. Make sure that your firewall is set up to handle this.

• GitWeb

git instaweb –httpd=webrick

• Deploy with Capistrano

set :repository, “git://127.0.0.1/rails-app”

RubyFringe, originally uploaded by Leftist.

RubyFringe is over, but the party continues!